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"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Sonja Henie's Latest Movie Filins Make Scheduled to Open Friday New Siars
1. Tooting the praises of “100 Men and a Girl,” due shortly at the Apollo, are Mischa Auer, with the clarinet, and Adolphe Menjou, |
TUESD AUG. 31, 19387 Circle Books Breen Film
For Friday
Sometimes
with the battered trombone. Deanna Durbin, the picture's star, is in the center. Leopold Stokowski, not present, shares honors with Deanna.
you may see chubby, graceful Sonja Henie as
2. Beginning Fricay, “Thin Ice,” is the Norwegian
the Apollo's chief attraction. The picture,
Crosby and Dietrich to Star in Forthcoming
Pictures. = ! The score stands two radio | stars to one glamour girl in the first three innings of the Circle’s new season. In other words, the theater’s opening pictures will have Bobby Breen, Bing Crosby and Marlene Dietrich as the stars. It looks like a musical fortnight beginning Friday. For 10-year-old Master Breen will be assisted by the opera and radio singer, Marion Claire, while the | open-countenanced Martha Raye | will be abetting Mr. Crosby. { “Make a Wish,” which like the | first talkies has a theme song of! the same title, is the Breen starring vehicle. Apparently it is a musical | of a different sort, with accent on | singing rather than chorus girls and | “spectacular” sets. The songs are | by Oscar Straus (with one 5s), who | was brought to Hollywood from | Vienna especially for this task. Mr, | Straus is not related to Johann or Richard— (who double the final letter in their names) but he is fa-|
mous in his own right as composer | of “The Chocolate Soldier.”
Radio Writer's Story
The story is by Gertrude Berg, | known to everyone who ever owned | a radio set as the author and star of the script series, “The Goldbergs.” Old Cunn’l Crosby, the race track| man, will be seen in “Double or] Nothing.” He also has a horse by | that name. In this picture Mr. Crosby, no longer content with Pennies | from heaven, takes a flyer at dou- | bling a gift of $5000 in 30 days, | thereby winning himself a cool mil- | lion. Miss Dietrich’s latest opus, made | after her British picture-making | sojourn and before her present | European vacation, is called “An- | gel.” This has no connection with | “Blue Angel,” her first American | picture. Rather, it is the final of | several tentative titles picked bv Director Ernst Lubitsch
Olympic star skater’s second film.
3. Fred Waring and Priscilla Lane, shown here. share honors with Rosemary,
Dick Powell and Priscilla’s sister, is to follow “100 Men and a Girl.”
in “Varsity Show,”
A
Film Producers ‘Scared’
3 £3 3
which
Unknowns Cast in Fine
IN NEW YORI ms, GEORGE ROSS
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Gliress Writer Blown Him Went
Up in War, and With a Big Idea.
EW YORK, Aug. 31. —Here is a letter from Sam Blake, publicist of
repute in Manhattan, throwing a local sidelight on timely news always been popping up. Back in “Tom Chung-yun was only a poor } ese shell blew him to bits] Yet in Chung-
dispatches
barely able to eke out a living when a Japan
last week as he walked through the
Chinese writer,
streets of Shanghai
and
| Hollywood's well established
| | |
| the silent days it was
Story May Become Famous Overnight.
By WILLIAM BOEHNEL
Times Special Writer
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31.—
axiom that the star makes the picture sometimes works in reverse. Just often enough to be the exception that proves the rule, it’s the picture that
makes the star. Time was when the name of a popular star automatically made a film a success regardless of its story or treatment. Audiences the |
wold over were not interested in themes but in personalities. And their interest in these personalities was not in their ability to act but rather in what they ate for breakfast, what they wore on their backs and all other details of their private lives. To a large extent the same remains true today. Movie addicts would still rather know whether Marlene Dietrich is going to get a | divorce and marry Douglas FFairbanks Jr., than whether she is a good actress or not. They still would rather read that Joan Crawford plays a phonograph on the set between scenes to get inspiration, or rumors that she had | Franchot Tone are going to separate, than learn that she has developed into a superior actress. The fact that Brian Aherne sends Olivia de Havilland flowers and that perhaps a romance is in the offing is more exciting to them than the information that both these per-
| production at the Goldwyn stuidos
sons are extremely good actors. “Hurricane” Is Example At the moment, too, there is in
a picture called “The Hurricane,” which, unless a miracle of misfor=tune occurs, should make Jon Hall, of whom you have probably never heard, a great screen figure and certainly make Dorothy Lamour a star, since it is by far the best part she has yet had on the screen. But exceptions to this rule have
“The Cheat”
that made Fannie Ward a star, “The Four Horsemen of the Apoc-
Betty Grable had better steer clear of those intrepid chinchilla hunters, Wash and Easy, for that is cne of the coveted little rodents perched on her shoulder. The animal posed with the screen player is valued at $1600, and is
one of 1100 chinchillas from a farm near Inglewood, Cal.
Duchin Tops Record Here
Pianist Beier: Box Office Mark Set By Lewis
Eddy Duchin’s “Stormy Weather” at the Lyric this week is stirring up box-office tempest that is toppling all attendance records.
“Stormy Weather” happens to be Mr. Duchin’s favorite popular tune, but everything that he and his assisting entertainers are presenting on the Lyric stage is finding favor with capacity audiences. Mr. Duchin began by breaking the theater's all-time opening-day record. On Saturday, besides breaking another record, his show was the first in the theater's history to play six shows in one day. On Sunday he turned what Manager Ted Nicholas terms “the toughest trick of all” when he broke the record hung up by Ted Lewis last year. Yesterday's attendance was ahead of Friday's and the Lyric management is sure that he will draw the biggest week the local vaudeville house has known
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| % 3 ¥ End | Ontario Villagers, All 12
Of Them, to Be Guests Of Producer.
Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The ene tire population of Zenda, Ont. is to be flown to New York tomorrow to witness on Thursday the film version of “The Prisoner of Zenda,”
Anthony Hope's famous novel after which the town was named. Of course—since Zenda has only 12 inhabitants—it would be more remarkable if all the population of New York were to be flown to the Canadian hamlet, but you can't have everything, even with the cooperation of Hollywood. The seven men and five women of Zenda are fo be the guests of David O. Selznick. Vernon Fewster, Zenda Mayor, will reverse the usual welcoming procedure by handing Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York a key to the Canadian village. Two men from a neighboring township have been hired to stand guard over the miniature business section and few homes of Zenda while its citizens are on their junket. Mr, Selznick is to be host to the group for 10 days. None of the party, it reported, has ever been York—or in an airplane. The picture, a United Artists pro duction, stars Ronald Colman. He is supported by Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, David Niven and Raymond Massey.
Send Card Big As Rug to Actor
has been to New
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 (U.P). Fred MacMurray received a birthe day greeting card big enough to use as a rug. Five thousand residents in his home town of Kankakee, Ill, signed it, including the postmaster, who accordingly saw that it got off to Hollywood safely with $2.40 worth of Stamps,
HOME TRAINING
GETS GLAMOUR
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 (U. P.) —= Irene Rich, movie and radio actress, today offered to rent her Hollywood home to the Board of Education for a cooking, interior decorating and gardening school, Tha idea was that the glamour of working in a movie star's home would enhance domestic training classes.
SWIM-DANCE
WESTLAKE
PAUL COLLINS’ ORCHESTRA
Farewell Dance Labor Day Night
Indianapoliz isn't the only eity that likes Mr. Duchin’s orchestra and his piano playing. In Chicago he bested Martha Raye's “phenomenal” draw at the Chicago Theater, and barely missed breaking the long-standing attendance record set by Amos 'n’ Andy at the peak of their popularity. It should be added, Mr. Nicholas said, that the radio blackface team played seven shows a day, while the Duchin outfit did only five, Mr. Duchin goes to Pittsburgh on Friday, and will return to the Chicago Theater after that, only four weeks after his first appearance. Mr. Nicholas, in Chicago last week-end, said that a trailer announcement of Mr, Duchin’s return on the Chicago screen brought more applause than any act on the stage bill.
yun, had he lived, there would have been one of the greatest publicity stories of the decade—and I am noty————— GS AP | disappeared, leaving the condition y S , “| of the public's Ectoplasm a blank. licist learned that the oldest news- | P p paper in the world, ‘The Tsing Pao, | yr better known as the Peking Ga-| HERE is a flaw in another film zette, founded in Peiping in 912 A. about Manhattan which now is circulating about the country. In
D., still was being published regularly. He immediately set to work “Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938,” Warner Baxter and Joan Bennefit
to ascertain if there was any living descendant of the first publisher of may be seen hurtling down 5th Ave. near dawn in a milk wagon. En
the paper (which, incidentally, is on file in the Chinese library of Coroute, they pass a number of red and green traffic signals.
lumbia University). Well, take it on the word of an
“The middle of this month came a cable from a reporter that a true observing dawn patroller, the traffic lights along 5th Ave. are turned off
descendant had been located in Shanghai, a Tom Chung-yun, who after 3 a. m, giving traffic both claimed that he could truly fit the | ways an even break. Could the research man have slipped up some-
bill. The publicist then cabled Chung-yun, asking for proof, prom- | Where? Or did he, during his study A g p p of the after-midnight scene, stroli
ising him both fame and wealth for ’ b a prompt reply in the affirmative. | Madison Ave. where the lights flickThe former visualized a story where- | €F on and off all night? We thought
alypse” made a star out of the late Rudolph Valentino, and “The Big Parade” lifted the late John Gilbert | into the top flight of box office | attractions. To come down to the modern sound era, “Flying Down to Rio,” created not one star but two in Fred - Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Freddie Bartholomew emerged from “David Copperfield” a full-fledged luminary; “Captain Blood” draped ‘the stellar mantle about Errol Flynn's shoulders; Tyrone Power was catapulted into stardom by “Lloyd of London”; Wayne Morris got his break in “Kid Galahad,” Jimmy Cagney in “The Public Enemy” and Edward G. Robinson 1 “Little Caesar.” It is still true that star names will help a poor picture more than an unknown cast, but it is equally true that a good picture can sometimes make unknowns into stars, just as it can enhance the reputa-
Other Bookings Tentative
By Boycott, Institute Told.
ings for the fall ver, according to WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Aug. 31 partment to withhold pictures which Frank Moneyhun, Circle publicity | [(U. P.).—Movie producers “are not go from American abroad and give head man. But Mr. Monevhun as- | converted— just scared” by the Le- our foreign neighbors false impres-
sures us further there are some top- | gion of Decency Boycott, although it | sions of Amer] ican life.”
flight attractions which only need has cost them 10 million dollars, | a definite piaying date for his Prof. Fred Eastman of Chicago | Film Calls for 7 * / Six Saber Cuts
theater. Theological Seminary said today. As proof he cites “Stage Door,” | At the williams College Institute | Margaret Sullavan’s stage hit of of Human Relations, Prof. Eastman | last season, which will costar|criticized the controlling interests ! Katharine Hepburn and Ginger [in the motion picture industry. | Rogers. Then there will be “High, “They have had until recently too Wide and Handsome,” Paramount's | little regard for the effect of their | rimes Special saga of the oil boom, with Irene |pictures upon the minds and char-| HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 31. — InDunne and Randolph Scott; “Ebb |acters of the people who saw them,” cluded in the list of properties Tide,” with Ray Milland, Oscar |he said, “and too little sense of re- needed for a scene in “Heidi,” ShirHomolka and Frances Farmer; Ce- |SPonsibility for protecting America’s| joy Temple's new picture, was the item: “Six saber cuts.” The scene was a street exterior in Frankfurt, Germany, in the early 1880’s—the period when every college student proudly bore a saber
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cil B. De Mille’s “Buccaneer,” star-|800d name abroad.” : ring Fredric March; Mae West as A drive for “better pictures,” he “Sapphire Sal” and “College |Suggested, should begin at home, Swing,” in which a large cast will | Where “we can patronize the 7 per
be headed by Burns and Allen |cent top quality and boycott the
KX Xy
COOL—LAST 3 DAYS
“DEAD END"
SYLVIA SIDNEY
NEVER MISSED LINE
Martha Raye, Charles Butterworth | trash.” and Eleanore Whitney. |
Two Movie Stars | Get Klieg Eyes’
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 (U.P) .— Walter Abel, leading man, and Frieda Inescourt, ash blond actress. | were suffering today from the fa- | miliar Hollywood ailment of “klieg | eyes.” Mr, Abel was forced to quit work several days. Between scenes Miss Inescourt covered her eyes with cloths soaked in witch hazel. The ailment, formerly the bane of studios, has been diminished since newer lights replaced the old arcs.
FREDDY HURT BY SOAPBOX RACER
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31. (U. P.).— Freddie Bartholomew had to have a soapbox racer, and 2s a result, one of his knees was bandaged today. An accident in his home-made scooter forced him to limp as he attended a preview.
WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
' with Mr. and Mrs, Mar-
rnes.’ oy 1:33, 4:26, 6:59
tin Johnson, at 11:2 and 9:32. “Hot Water.” Family, at 12:35 10:47.
with
i th Jones 3:08, 5:41,
e 8:14 and
CIRCLE
"Souls ha Sea wit h George aft and rances 12:40 3:53. 7:06 and 10:19.
“Blond Trouble,” with Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Powe bo Lynne Overman, at 11:32. 2:45, 5:58 and 9:11.
Gary Cooper, Dee, at
LOEW'S
End,” McCrea. at 11. 10.
with Sylvia Sidney 1:45, 4:30, 0 and “Jj¢ Can't Last Forever,” with Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong and Raymond Walburn, at 12:35, 1:25, 6:10 and 8:55.
LYRIC
ongession, 3 with Kay Francis, at 11:25, 1:39, 3:53 6:07, 8:21 and 10:35. Vaudeville, with Eddy Duchin’s crchestra, at 12:44, 2:58, 5:12, 7:26 snd 9:40
OHIO
«A Star Is Born,” with Predric March and Janet Gavnor. Also cartoon, “Sinbad the Sailor.”
AMBASSADOR “The Singing Marine,” with Dick
Powell. Also “Every Sunday,” with Deanna Durbin.
ALAMO
“Yeu Can’t Buy Luck,” With Helen Mack. Alse “She Had to Ea
high school classes in motion pic- | ture appreciation
| introduced into Congress. .
“We can educate communities by
and discrimination, and study groups in our churches and civic associations. We can help the more progressive ex- | | hibitions break the block-booking | {system. A bill to this end has been | . We can write our Congressmen for their | support. “We can empower our State De- |
{and eggs
scar on his cheek.
The studio “saber cuts” were pieces of red tissue paper, and were | appiied to extras by means of gum | Iebir,
NAMES LOVE DISH It’s easier to make love on ham
than toast and orange juice, according to Phyllis Brooks.
LEAD BRASS FOR
CITY SYMPHONY
New leaders of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's
brass sec=
tion are to be Simon Karasick, first trombone (left) and Charles Mun=-
ger, first trumpet. Mr. Rochester,
N. Y, in 1933.
Karasick was graduated from the Eastman School of Musie, He won a four-year scholarship by competi--
tion for study with Emory Remington, Rochester Philharmonic Or-
chestra first trombonist.
As a student he filled radio engagements,
was extra trombone in the Rochester Philharmonic, and toured with
the Victor Concert Band.
Other engagements have included appearances with the New York Civic Symphony, the National Orchestra Association and the Radio
City Music Hall Orchestra.
Mr. Munger comes te the local orchestra from Cincinnati, where he was a faculty member at the conservatory, from which he is a graduate. His teachers have included Frank Simon, Armco Band director, and Henry Wolgemuth of the Cincinnati Symphony. Prior to his connection with the Cincinnati Conservatory, Mr. Munger was soloist with the Fillmore Band and teacher at the Fillmore School of Music.
gl ia:
GARY COOPER GEORGE RAFT
TAR BORN”—Janet Gaynor Plus! POPEYE the Sailor Man All-Color Hit—'‘Sindbad the Sailor” Tomerrow—"CHINA PASSAGE” Vinton Haworth—Constance Worth
GLU ATSEA-
Plus “BLONDE TROUBLE” ond
$i «MARCH OF FY TIME"
LYRIC]
COOL OZONIZED AIR
3 Ket Days! {
He R(PPr EDDY.
UCHI
$1 Person
ERT
LS SREY
with His Own Revue
| come to America for the ceremonies.
by, in commemoration of the 1025th anniversary of the Peking Gazette, the Fourth Estate the world over would honor Chung-yun who would
“The deal was set. Chung-yun produced his credentials and the necessary plans were being formulated. But a Japanese shell ended the dream of what the press agent had hoped would be the climatic stunt of his career.” . .. That forlorn | fellow, of course, is the letter-writer, Sam. Ed EJ HIPBOARD interview with Jimmy Durante after his return from Salerno, Italy, where he visited his parents: “I got so excited,” said the renowned Schnozzle, “I left Salerno and went to Rome. I got so excited because none of them. Italians could understand my high-class pronunciation of the Italian language which I learned in the gutters of New York City. They said to me, ‘Your Italian is abdominal, it is simply abdominal.”
5 ® » T happened, reported the bemused Harry Cohn, the evening before “Topper” was scheduled to
open at the Capitol. An anonymous genius had de-
should read — How's Your Ectoplasm? See “Topper.” A little fellow, clad in overalls, was arranging the lettering. He got as far as How's Your Ectoplasm?. hesitated, then quickly hung up the letters: Mine's Fine. Calling to a workman below, he gloated over his bit of mischief and both laughed for a single abandoned moment. Then, as quickly as it went up, Mine's
creed that the sign on the marquee
Fine came down. The little fellow
we'd tell you, anyway. ~ ” ”
HE milk-wagon hour York, incidentally,
mn
make their matutinal rounds.
In justice to the Wanger film, let it is stili no startling sight to observe a milk wagon, clop-clopping about Central Park in early morning, being ma- | neuvered by a couple in dress clothes
it be said, however, that
who just don’t want to go home.
CAPRA SUES FOR
$100,000 SALARY
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31.
leading directors, sought
New is not what it used to be. Thanks to curfew hour enforcement, most revellers are turning in long before the milkmen
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Your “One In A Million” girl and the boy in a million... in a gay and gsm musical!
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S Deozzling ice. spectacles! 4 Songs of lilting |S loveliness! N
77 ANEW
(U. P).— Frank Capra, one of Hollywood's $100,000 alleged back salary and cancellation of his Columbia Studio contract today. He sues in Superior Court, charging that the studio was in arrears under his $200,000 a year | contract which has a year to run.
tion of established players. Just how true this is ‘has been proved recently by “They Won't Forget,” a picture which is definitely an exception to the rule that the star makes the film. Without a single prominent name in the cast, it has already enriched the reputation of Claude Rains, converted Gloria Dickson from an unknown actress into a nationally known figure and made Allyn Joslyn a | Hollywood personality.
VORTEX
HOOSIER PETE
Janet Beecher has never missed a line in all her years in pictures.
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“SINGING MARINE"
in Hit , Deanna Durb » "DAY AT THE RACES
Final Day!
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